We speak with Tim Redmond of 48 Hills about the ousting of London Breed to make room for a caretaker mayor to run SF. Later REN THE VINYL ARCHAEOLOGIST, the curator of True Skool stops by to discuss upcoming events in the bay area.
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Felsen performs live on The Hear and Now, 10 p.m., Thursday, January 25
The East Bay indie rock band Felsen is celebrating the release of its fifth album, Blood Orange Moon, with a show at the Brick & Mortar Music Hall in San Francisco on Friday, February 2, at 9 p.m. KPFA listeners get a sneak preview with a live in-studio concert on “The Hear and Now,” hosted … Continued
Crime is way down, and law and order advocates argue that’s the result of expanded policing and other punitive measures. But sociologist Alex Vitale says there’s no evidence that’s true. He discusses how expanded policing is the flip side of neoliberal economic austerity and the slashing of social services. Resources: Alex Vitale, The End of … Continued
While the Democratic Party is preparing reforms to the presidential nomination process, a new report has been published, named “Autopsy: The Democratic Party in Crisis”. On today’s show, we comment this crisis of the Democratic Party with Karen Bernal, Chair of the California Democratic Party Progressive Caucus, and Margarita Lacabe, member of the Alameda Democratic Central Committee California.
On today’s show, we discuss how reproductive rights are faring under the Trump administration. We speak with Imani Gandy, Senior Legal Analyst at Rewire, reproductive justice activist, and host of Rewire’s podcast Boom Lawyered and Regina Campuzano of the Bay Area Reproductive Justice coalition, which is organizing the Rally for Reproductive Justice this Saturday in San … Continued
Fantasy Novelist Ursula Le Guin, Who Explored Resistance & Change, Dies at Age 88; “Strong Island”: Trans Filmmaker Yance Ford Searches for Justice After His Brother’s Racist Murder; Alabama’s Hale County is Subject of Poetic Documentary on Blackness and Everyday Life in the Black Belt.
A 3-day federal government shutdown ends with Donald Trump signing a temporary spending bill through early February while an impasse over a DREAM Act remains in place. On today’s show we’ll speak with a young activist, a DACA Recipient named Barbara Hernandez, who, along with several others Dreamers blocked the entrance to Disneyland on Monday … Continued
Simon Singh, on the origin of universe; and Spencer Wells, on the origin of humanity. Hosted by Dr. Michio Kaku.
If what Eric Holt-Giménez calls our current corporate food regime is neither equitable nor resilient, then how do we go about changing or replacing it? Our starting point, says Holt-Giménez, must be to understand capitalism as a system and capitalism’s history as an evolving set of agendas and practices. He examines the role of agriculture … Continued
In the book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump, 27 psychiatrists and mental health experts have come together to speak out about their concern over Trump’s ability to lead the country as President. On today’s show, Mitch Jeserich speaks with two of them, Bandy Lee and Dee Mosbacher.